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THE DENVER POST 10-03-00 [image] [image caption] DISABILITY PROTEST: Dan Ham of Denver, center, joins other members of the disability rights organization ADAPT at a protest Monday outside the White House. The group says Medicaid has an institutional bias favoring nursing-home 'bondage' over community-based care. Associated Press / Kamenko Pajic DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2000 [Headline] Denver disabled activist among protesters in D.C. Associated Press WASHINGTON--A Denver man was one of dozens of disabled people in wheelchairs who blocked entrances to the Republican Party's headquarters for five hours Tuesday, demanding a meeting with George W. Bush. The protest forced the cancellation of a fundraiser and kept party employees from leaving the build-ing, although some climbed out of first-floor windows. The protesters began dispersing after police prepared to make arrests. "We accomplished as much as we could here," said Michael Auberger of Denver, a spokesman for Adapt, the group that organized the protest. A quadriplegic since age 17, Auberger is executive director of the Atlantis Community in Colorado. He received a Colorado Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award this year. Protesters want the Texas governor to sign a pledge supporting the 10-year-old Americans With Disabilities Act, a law barring dis-crimination and requiring wheelchair ramps and other accommodations Bush's father signed the legislation into law. "A letter would have been sufficient but we will convey their request" for a meeting with Bush, said GOP spokesman Cliff May. "We asked them to take a look at the governor's record on disabilities issues." - ADAPT (1267)
[Headline] Disabled rights act defended at rally downtown Supreme Court case challenges constitutionality By DARLA CARTER The Courier-Journal Chanting "Don't tread on the ADA!" about 40 people gathered in the pouring rain in downtown Louisville yesterday to show their support for keep-ing the Americans with Disabilities Act intact. Their rally in front of the Mazzoli Federal Building near Sixth and Chestnut streets took place during a brief stop by the Rolling Freedom Express, a caravan of ADA supporters that began in Alabama and is heading to Washington for a march on Oct. 3. The protesters are concerned about a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that challenges the constitutionality of the ADA, a 10-year-old federal law that provides for various public accommodations for disabled -people and prohibits job dis-crimination against them. The case, University of Alabama vs. Patricia Garrett, was brought by a university employee who was demoted after taking time off for breast-cancer treatment. After oral arguments Oct. 11, the Supreme Court will decide whether the 11th Amendment bars such suits against states in federal court. Advocates for the disabled argue that the ADA is about civil rights, not states' rights, and should be left alone. "It seems like it's being chipped away piece by piece, and we just need to let people know that it's an important piece of legislation and that people with disabilities really need it," said Alan Richardson of the Center for Accessible Living in Louisville, which helped publicize yesterday's event. The center's director, Jan Day, agreed. "Any kind of weakening amendments to the ADA would just be devastating," she said. "I can't think of any other civil-rights legislation where we've gone back into it, saying it was too difficult to impose." Sue Davis, an activist for the disabled who led yesterday's rally, said she worries that the case could set off a flurry of changes in the ADA that could set disabled people back by decades. Furthermore, "it shows we can never really let up putting our shoulder to the wheel," said Davis, of the Kentucky chapter of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, known as ADAPT. Yesterday's speakers included disabled residents as well as the city and state ADA coordinators, who voiced the sup-port of Mayor David Arm-strong and Gov. Paul Patton. Sandra Williams, Louisville's ADA coordinator, said the city doesn't want to see any changes in the ADA. And Pamela H. Wallace, the state's ADA coordinator, got the crowd fired up by saying: "There are a lot of efforts afoot to weaken the ADA to do away with it, and we're not going to allow that to happen, are we? We're going to support the ADA and keep our civil rights as American citizens." The crowd remained steady despite weather that Williams joked was lovely for ducks, polar bears, and anything with fur or fins. Rebecca Duncan, an ADAPT member who has cerebral palsy, said that braving such weather is warranted when the topic is "our rights." Duncan, who uses a wheelchair, said that without ADA she'd be institutionalized and left out of society. Instead, she's able to live in an apartment and to get in and out of buildings because of accommodations, such as ramps, that the ADA brought about. "It's very important to keep ADA," she said. Tuesday, September 26, 2000 Neighborhood news B2 Kentucky and the Region B4 Weather B4 Briefs B4 Deaths B6 - ADAPT (1294)
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October 5, 2000 Heard on the Hill [Headline] Under Siege. Rep. Tom Davis (Va.) and his fellow House GOP leaders don't just have Democrats storming the gates anymore. By Ed Henry On Tuesday evening, hundreds of protesters with disabilities trapped a rather peeved Davis and scores of his National Republican Congressional Committee staffers in their First Street, SE, headquarters for more than seven hours. Sources tell HOH that House Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood's folks finally had to be called in to help Davis and several others sneak out a back window. The protesters, who are fighting for the constitutionality of the Americans With Disabilities Act, chanted over and over, "You can't get out!" Although the protest threw off some GOP staffers' plans to watch the first presidential debate away from the office, others took it in stride. "I feel like Bernie Shaw," NRCC spokesman Jim Wilkinson cracked to HOH via telephone during the siege. "I'm about to crawl under the bed." Then on Wednesday, GOP vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney was visiting the NRCC when his Secret Service detail freaked out after word spread that the protesters were returning for another round. Cheney escaped before there was trouble. But at press time last night, the protesters were indeed headed back for more. - ADAPT (1293)
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Civil Disobedience [Headline] Bob Kafka [Subheading] Bob Kafka is committed to activism, and he has learned where, when and how to channel his energy, Without street action, he says, legal victories are stale, and even good laws are toothless. By Josie Byzek Like Vikings laying siege to a medieval castle, ADAPT activists plug every human-sized hole in the exterior of the Georgia Nursing Home Association building, even parking in front of windows. ADAPT's top three chieftains-Bob Kafka, Stephanie Thomas and Mike Auberger direct the action from a nearby sidewalk. It's 2 p.m. [image] [image caption] Photo by Tom Olin [paragraph continues] Once the building is secure, the activists sing and chant, "Our homes, not nursing homes" for hours to ward off the damp, cold November air. "This isn't working. don't think this is working. We have to escalate," says Kafka. It's 5 p.m. Orders pass from unit to unit—blues first, then reds, followed by greens. "Fill the street. Take your ADAPT jewelry, don't bother hiding it from the cops!" In minutes the four-lane highway is closed down, hand-cuffed activists spanning from the tree-line to the association's lawn. At 8 p.m. a tire truck pulls up behind the human harrier reef. Strong, sustained blasts from a fireman's hose could send the wheeled reef down hill, out of the highway, into the trees. It's Martina Robinson's first national ADAPT action. The 22-year-old Pennsylvanian glances nervously over to leadership. Kafka, Dylanesque hair held down by a cap, is cracking a joke to his wife, Stephanie Thomas. They're both engaged but calm. Robinson also calms down, realizing there will be no hoses tonight. Instead the fire department constructs portable light poles in the street so Fred Watson, director of the Georgia Nursing Home Association, can get a better view of the immovable roadblock. No progress—Watson re-fuses A DAPT's demands. Again Kafka passes orders. Time to escalate. Handcuffs are unlocked and the activists start to march. It's 10 p.m. Miles and hours later, buoyed by anger and adrenaline, ADAPT activists burst into the Marquis, Atlanta's flag-ship hotel, surprising mem-[article cuts off here] - ADAPT (1286)
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THE DENVER POST 8B Wednesday, September 20, 2000 [image] [image caption] Rick James heads for Washington, D.C., for a national protest to call attention to a legal challenge to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Denver Post / John Leyba [Headline] Disabled group to join D.C. rally By J. Sebastian Sinisi Denver Post Staff Writer About 30 wheelchair users gathered outside the Atlantis Community independent living center in south Denver on Tuesday morning to cheer members of their group who were leaving by van for Birmingham, Ala. There, they'll join a national dis-abled protest over the Garrett vs. University of Alabama case, now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, that they fear could undermine disabled rights. About 1,000 are expected in Birmingham on Friday, said wheel-chair user Joe Ehman, who helped organize the privately funded tour from Denver. Ehman is the housing coordinator for the American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, arm of Atlantis. In Birmingham, the eight-member Denver group will shift to a bus for news conferences and rally stops in eight other cities, including Atlanta, Philadelphia and Baltimore. More demonstrators will join the Denverites along the way. The tour ends with a rally expected to bring at least 3,000 to the U.S. Capitol at noon Oct. 3 to draw attention to the Garrett case, which questions the constitutionality of the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed a decade ago. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 11. "I'm not looking forward to rid-ing eight hours a day in a van ev-ery day, but everything we've gained under the ADA is now in jeopardy," said Rick Viator, 40, in a wheelchair for five years because of a gunshot wound. "People need to know that our rights are in danger," said Rick James, 50, who was also making the trip. James has used a wheel-chair since childhood. Atlantis-affiliated demonstrators engaged in the first disabled civil disobedience anywhere in the U.S. when they chained their wheelchairs to bus stops at Broadway and Colfax Avenue in 1977 to protest lack of wheelchair access on Denver buses. As a result, Denver was the first city in America to have wheelchair lifts on buses, long before the ADA made such access mandatory nationwide. ADAPT made front-page Denver news last February when members handcuffed themselves to Currigan Hall entryways during a homebuilding industry exposition to protest a dearth of disabled: friendly home construction. That action resulted in 17 arrests.